When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?' — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when… — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
“I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.” — Spectator no. 7 Copy Share Image
“After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach.… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Ricky Hatton has no sense of anticipation of what's coming his way. You can teach him all you want, but he doesn't… — Paulie Malignaggi Copy Share Image
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. — Horace Copy Share Image
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Like a rollercoaster, my mind had climbed its way to the top—only to witness how far there was to fall. And like… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
Never yield to gloomy anticipation. Place your hope and confidence in God. He has no record of failure — Lettie Cowman Copy Share Image
You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation.… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the past is a grievous error; defeatism about the future is a crime! — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
It was an image Melody would never forget. Or was it the emotions the image conjured - hope, excitement, and fear of… — Lisi Harrison Copy Share Image
